Rendezvous

Rendezvous is the anglification of the French word Rendez-vous meaning "appointment". (literally, come you); (IPA pronunciation: ['rɒndeɪvu], ['rɒndəvu], ['rɑndəvu], ['rɑndeɪvu]).

In a general sense, it means any type of meeting, generally between two persons.

It can also be a place either for a meeting at an agreed time, or where people often meet.

Events

• Rendezvous is a label applied to annual gatherings in North America. These are events where teachers and students gather to teach, learn and share information about their areas of interest. Analogous to conferences held in the out-of-doors about things having to do with the out-of-doors.
• "Rendezvous" was the name used for the annual meeting of mountain men and fur buyers during the Western fur trade era, where trappers would exchange beaver skins for supplies and goods they wanted. These events occurred between the early 1820s and the 1840s, coming to an end when the price of beaver skins fell due to changes in fashion. It is now used for any gathering in the buckskinning historical re-enactment hobby.
• Rendezvous, the name of the cultural festival of the Indian Institute of Technology, Delhi.
• Rendezvous is one of the biggest annual college fests in India, organised by Indian Institute of Technology Delhi during the third weekend in September.

Computer

• Rendezvous, now called Bonjour, a computer network technology developed by Apple Computer.
• Rendezvous is the short name for Virtual Rendezvous, both an open software project and the company leading it.
• Rendezvous (plan 9), a system call of Plan 9
• Rendezvous problem, a class of computational problems
• Rendezvous is a short name for TIBCO Rendezvous, a software product.
• Rendezvous is the name of inter-process (inter-task) communication method of Ada programming language.

Music

• Seaside Rendezvous, the title of a song by Queen on the album A Night at the Opera.
• Rendez-Vous, the title of a 1986 album by the French artist Jean Michel Jarre
• "Rendezvous", the name of a song by a British progressive house act Tilt featuring German DJ Paul van Dyk
• Rendezvous (album), an album made by singer/songwriter Christopher Cross in 1992
• Rendezvous with RagNaRok, a video by the band GWAR.

Television & film

• C'était un rendez-vous, a short film made in 1976 by Claude Lelouch
• Rendezvous (movie), a 1935 film
• Rendezvous (Prison Break episode), an episode of the television series Prison Break.

Miscellaneous

• Buick Rendezvous, the name of an automobile manufactured by General Motors Corporation
• Space rendezvous, an orbital maneuver where the two arrive at the same orbit, make the orbital velocities the same, and bring them together
• Rendezvous (political cartoon) is a political cartoon that satirises the Molotov-Ribbentrop pact between the Soviet Union and Nazi Germany.
• Rendezvous Society is a British based educational charity (UK registered charity 293357) that promotes environmental and cultural understanding amongst linked communities around the world.